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Urban garden tour
The Washington Park Garden Tour is Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The tour includes 10 diverse gardens that spotlight Xeriscaping, water features and creative space planning. Tickets, $20, available Saturday at the first stop: 903 S. Corona St. Details at .
FRUIT PROTECTION
Preparing for pests
The ripening of this year’s cherries and peaches is making the mouths of squirrels everywhere begin to water. Keep these and other creatures from pillaging summer’s sweet bounty with Netbrella, a protective netting system that “protects fruit from damage or disappearance by the pesky peckers,” according to its inventor, Boulder’s Ray Hauser. Two sizes sell for $46 and $52 at .
— Elana Ashanti Jefferson, The Denver Post
